It was pouring quite bad. He was walking, fully suited: jacket on the inside, raincoat on the outside. Helmet on his head, green file on his right-hand, and his brown metal-like bottle on his left. He was suppose to fetch his coursemate home, but someone else offered her a better alternative back.
And it's a good thing she didn't follow him.
Rain was pelting against the 20 year old English major, but that was the least of his concern. He was used to it, as weather in Kampar has recently not been that well, so it's not his first time. However, THIS was his first time.
Riding at about 70km/h, his motorbike suddenly began to slow down. He said to himself, "Great. Of all times." With rain seeming to get a little heavier, he desperately tried to restart his motor, but it just wouldn't start. Cars wizzed by him at quite a speed, but he didn't think that a car would come straight at him.
Suddenly, something made him look at his review mirror. A car was coming behind him at about 60-70km/h, and it's coming up fast. He thought, "Surely the driver would avoid me." However, at the same time, he also thought, "What if the driver does not know that I'm stationary?"
Stunned, he was waiting for it to happened.
It didn't. The driver managed to notice in time, stepped on his break at full force, and somehow managed to avoid crashing into him. He thought to himself, "That was a close call." The driver, with his friend meanwhile, were at the car, breathing sighs of relief, the driver in particular. Gesturing to to the driver, he signal that everything's ok, and also sorry. The driver didn't know what to say, but gestured back as well, and drove off.
He then decided to push the motor to the closest workshop, but only for the shop owner to tell him that the problem was so minute. Thinking to himself, "What the heck...", he slowly turned his motor back on the road.
The coursemate that offered his friend the alternative to go back home happened to drop by, and ask for his condition. Giving a thumb up, he said, "I'm cool."
He then continued his ride home.
8 comments:
Wow, its you right?
must be. Going back to Ipoh huh. That was close.
Daniel - Yeah it was me, indirectly. Blek =p
Alex - Erm not really. Was going back to my apartment in Kampar. Heh^^v
oh my... thank God you're alright! :)
Service the bike regularly... It will save your life one day ;)
my car tyre was punctured on my way back to KL during the recent study week, i didn't notice and drove like 50minutes until i heard weird noice! we were so blessed that nth bad happened! it was only after i stopped the car aside that i realized, we could have been in a car accident already if i drove faster than usual!
Hehe yeah. Praise God for His protection upon us YiLing, otherwise we might have been dead. Touchwood XD
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